The Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee of the Minneapolis City Council met on October 27, 2025, at 11:31 AM (CT) under the chairmanship of Robin Wansley. The committee addressed a consent agenda of nine items, two gift acceptance requests from the Police Department, a paid parental leave policy amendment, and a closed session on labor negotiation strategy. All six members were present, establishing a quorum.
Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Robin Wansley, and I am the chair of the administration and entreprise oversight committee. I am going to call to order our regular scheduled meeting for today, October 27, 2025. But before we begin the meeting, I want to offer a friendly reminder to all committee members, staff, and the public that these meetings are broadcast live to enable greater public participation. These broadcasts include real-time captioning as a further method to increase the accessibility of our proceedings to the community. Therefore, all speakers need to be mindful of the rate of their speech so that our captioners can fully capture and transcribe all comments for the broadcast. We ask all speakers to moderate the speed and clarity of their comments. I'll now have the clerk call the role. Councilmember Payne. Present. Vita present. Cashman present. Chuck Tai, present. Vice Chair Palmasano present. Chair Wansley. That is six members present. Thank you, and let the record reflect that we do have a quorum today. Also, I'll remind my colleagues that excuse me per usual. We're using speaker management. And if you're having any issues signing in, please find the clerk who is sitting right at the end of us. Who can assist you with that? All right. So first we're going to take up the consent agenda, which has nine items, and I'll read that for the public record. The first is a bid for Newton Avenue Sanitary Sewer Reconstruction Project. Two is a bid for a convention center dish machine and prep table replacement project. Three is a contract with Amery National Community Services, LLC for loan portfolio management and loan development services. Four is a contract with ABM Equipment LLC to provide loan master refused packer bodies and temper assemblies. Five is master contracts with various vendors to establish an executive recruitment services pool for executive search services. Six is master contracts with various vendors for the 2026 through 2029 public works consulting pool. Seven is a contract amendment with Kimley Horn and Associates Inc. for engineering and design services for the Hennepin F South Street Reconstruction Project. Eight is a contract amendment with Fairview Health Services for Reach Food Resource Navigator Services. And number nine is an entreprise risk management ordinance. With that, I will move these items for approval and see if there's any questions in the queue. All right, see no one getting in for further discussion. I will do a sample voice vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed. All right, the ayes have it, and that motion carries. Discussion item number 10. Our first discussion items related to actually to item 10 and 11, which are related to gift acceptance for the police department staff, um, several staff. Specifically, I will ask uh Vicky Trotskick Trouswick, the director of police financial operations to speak on both items. Um and yeah, I'll invite Vicky up. Thank you, Chair Wandsley, committee members. Uh, the first guest gift acceptance um is to accept funds from the Arnold Foundation for travel for two to participate in a recruitment workshop. This action was not submitted timely. The travel is for 10 28 and will have occurred prior to the full council on 11.6. I was told that the delay was related to selecting a recruitment team member, and also the new employee wasn't aware of the timeline. We have added this to our new employee handout in order to prevent this in the future.